Quasi-Quasimodo
Searching the smoking ruins
of Notre-Dame cathedral,
on the Paris Île de la Cité,
one of the finest examples medieval
of French Gothic architecture,
with flying buttresses, a rib vault,
immense bells,
enormous colourful rose windows
all of which went through hell
during the fearful fire of 2019,
and it was seen
he'd been through the wringer
when looking for Quasimodo
they found a dead ringer
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Categories:
notre, fire, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Notre Dame Bells
It tolls eighty eight, times to symbolize that someone has died .It wasn’t the ordinary man in the street or the man that frequently disrupt the people’s heart beat; it wasn’t the fellow down the road or the man tending to sheep up the road, it was the man that wore the papacy cap and
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Categories:
notre, bird, character, community, death,
Form: Narrative
Spires
On the day four beasts fell…
Their tails whipping the sky in smoke
Consumed by their own fire
Such commerce
Brought down an ancient spire
Little did the beasts care
A mighty success 5 years prior
When just one was saved
From confusion and mire
For as the cock crowed
In a mourning flame
If they would’ve recognized a sun
They
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Categories:
notre, allegory, business, corruption, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Le Coeur De Notre Jeunesse
Plein de tendresse
Toujours prête à aidé
S'entraider
Sourire sans effort
Poursuit notre corps
La vie elle est belle
Avec Jésus la vie réelle
Toujours notre appui
Il détruit tout ennuies
Le temps du coeur
Avancer sans frayeur
Béni du Saint Esprit
Jésus nous suit
Sa main à nos côtés
Nous allons toujours avancer
Du Bon Dieu sa vision
Voilà notre mission
Notre Champion
Notre lumière à notre lampion
Jésus sécure chaque évangile
Nous somme
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Categories:
notre, blessing, dream, faith, future,
Form: Free verse
Notre Dame Du Bois Joli
En route avec le Seigneur on l'a suit
Aucun regret
Parmis la forêt
Mes pionniers
Vous avez bien trouvés
Lesson d'amour
Au secours
Apprendre à partagé
Vous avez bien semés
Dieu retrouve en moi
Choix de sa foix
Au temps du respect
Une jeunesse imparfaite
Mon Dieu je te demande pardon
Merci de vos leçons
Plus de souffrance
Viens on danse
Tu te rapproche
Au fait des roches
Du village petit
L'épiphanie
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Categories:
notre, blessing, faith, forgiveness, god,
Form: Free verse
Notre Roi Presente
Ma bienfaisante
I AM love
Sent from above
Thank you Mother
For you my brother
Notible heights
God blessed his Knight
Our King and Savior
Shall be remembered
God Shepherd
This world required
As a one with Jesus man of honor
We shall conquer
Born of the spirit
God holds this merit
Heart confused by man
Stood up to the lies and said we can
Glow in his essence
Among our presence
Moment
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Categories:
notre, blessing, destiny, freedom, god,
Form: Free verse
Gloire a Notre Pere
Qui nous humble cette terre
Tu est ma victoire
J'ai gardée espoir
La vie si belle
On range les poubelles
Plus d'ennuies
Quand il fait nuit
Sincérités
À nos charités
Bien écrit
Plus d'ennuis
Vous pouvez noter
Nos coeurs n'on pas changés
Les yeux ouverts
Nous sommes bien couverts
Peut où ils demeurent
Ouvres leurs coeurs
À toi mon Seigneur
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Categories:
notre, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Notre Voyage
We’re the crew of the spaceship boring - on a one year mission.
The situation's literally life or death - this isn’t science-fiction.
The crew is an actual family - ideal for such a quest,
but none of us volunteered for this - it’s more like house arrest.
We seek out no adventures, we avoid interaction if we can.
We
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Categories:
notre, 11th grade, metaphor, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Basilica of Notre Dame University and My Grandfather
My maternal grandfather died when I was just seven!
Most certainly he is honored with special joy in heaven.
He left his art work at the Basilica of Notre Dame in Indiana
Those artistic, lighted fixtures you see hanging down
Are his creations,he must ride on his own heavenly cloud!
It makes me wonder....what will I leave behind of beauty?
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Categories:
notre, appreciation, beautiful, creation, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme
Paris Redivivus
Your breath beside me.
Willows beneath my boughs.
Last night you cast love’s imposters out the door.
Supine in your divinity, my thoughts tremble.
Drunk in memories.
I’m twenty-three in Paris. And all I want in this crazy spinning orb is
One more moment,
In Montparnasse,
Fingers intertwined beneath the pearl-laced tablecloth of that modest cafe,
Overpriced
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Categories:
notre, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Notre Dame De Paris
Our Lady of Paris
With your ribbed vaults
Flying buttress
And rose colored windows
The Huguenots
The Republicans
Couldn't destroy you
Victor and Quasimodo
Loved you
Napoleon restored you
Fire couldn't destroy you
Your spire fell
But your spirit
Your cross
Still shines
NOTRE DAME IN THE NEWS Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Rodrigues
5/16/19
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Categories:
notre, christian, faith, fire, violence,
Form: Free verse
Notre Dame
“Notre Dame”
A morning in April the world changed
And something which no one ever expected
Happened to a building in Paris
Hell reached up and grabbed a piece of Heaven
And the cathedral of Notre Dame burned
Millions cried as God’s soldiers fought the blaze
So much history and so much religion died that day
The fire turned the cathedral into a
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Categories:
notre, fire, french, god,
Form: Free verse
Nd - On Recalling Notre Dame
wandering quaint streets
long ago with my small group,
we view Notre Dame
graceful Parisian essence . . .
fire can’t devour memories
May 11, 2019
Poetry Contest: Notre Dame In The News
Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues
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Categories:
notre, city,
Form: Tanka
Nd Heart In Ashes
The people gaze in disbelief
As flames engulf the screaming spire.
Raised eyes, transfixed, are full of grief
To witness this ferocious fire.
The very heart of Paris groans
As acrid smoke erupts with ease
And atheists reduced to tears
Console those driven to their knees.
And as the spire comes crashing down
The people gasp in sheer despair
Linked hand in hand and deep
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Categories:
notre, fire, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Nd - Notre Dame Tribute
: ND- Rejuvenation Optimism
Renovation irony
Cathedral Notre-dame de Paris
Burning fifteen hours
Hopes and dreams
Up in smoke? No.
Faith prevails.
Masterpiece of Gothic architecture
Will be rebuilt
Rejuvenation optimism.
The French gave the U.S. our Statue of Liberty
Andrew Tallon has given the French the gift
of his 3-D scan of the Cathedral he took in 2000.
Built in the 12th and 13th centuries
Rebuilt in
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Categories:
notre, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
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